Software-as-a-Service Ship Is Cruising Full-Steam Ahead
May 2, 2013
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Eric Lundquist.
"The software-as-a-service ship has sailed," Google CIO Ben Fried told attendees at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in New York City late last month. Where once there were entire conferences dedicated to whether or not cloud computing would ever be right for the enterprise, that argument is now moot. OK. So it is a moot argument, but the reality is that it isn’t one boat but an entire flotilla of boats that have sailed.
Not to belabor the metaphor all that much, but there is the SS Amazon, the SS Rackspace, the SS OpenStack and a mixed crew of major vendors, independent developers and CIOs. The CIOs attending the Bloomberg forum weren’t disputing the value of cloud computing, but were still concerned about security, privacy and liabilities related to the cloud…
However, rather than allowing those issues to scuttle cloud computing initiatives, the executives want to be able to evaluate the varied cloud offerings in a real environment rather than looking at PowerPoint slides of promises…
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